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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most selective colleges will never willingly give up ED. It’s far too advantageous for them.  It’s not even for the full pay students. High endowment schools will make it work for nearly every family. It’s because they can craft much of their class with students that both really want to be there and meet their institutional needs - athletes, engineers, vip, Pell grant, English majors, international etc. Every student has a box and ED allows the schools to fill these boxes as they see fit. [/quote]

The most selective colleges don’t have ED.[/quote]

Of course they do.  What a silly comment.

https://www.ivycoach.com/the-ivy-coach-blog/early-decision-early-action/schools-with-early-decision/[/quote]

Depends on what you mean by "most selective".  But the top 5 schools (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and MIT)  do not have early decision.[/quote]

Semantics. They have Single Choice Early Action, which is effectively the same thing. But agree that applying early to HYSMP doesn't make a difference for unhooked students. But ED does confer advantages at Duke, Penn, Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Brown, Columbia, Rice, Northwestern, Chicago, and Cornell. Only a deeply out of touch person would regard them as less than "most selective." Ironically, it's often the ED rejects that end up at HYPSM in the RD round. [/quote]

It’s not semantics, single choice early action is not binding on the student.[/quote]

It does prevent you from applying to other ED schools, so there's a huge opportunity cost. [/quote]

Not really,  most of the schools with high ED acceptance rate would not be the first choice of a kid aiming for T15.[/quote]

For most families considering T20 schools, they pay attention to the differential between ED and RD acceptance rates. Vanderbilt for instance is 15.2 vs 3.7 percent. Duke is 12.92 vs 4.1 percent. Brown is 14.38 vs 3.9 percent. Rice is 15.3 vs 3.9 percent.

Choose.

They really aren't safeties for those gunning for Stanford or Harvard. The RD round is brutal for most top students. That's when it really becomes a lottery. Most of the Harvard or bust students end up at state schools or getting merit somewhere disappointing.

But go ahead with the la-di-dah thinking. [/quote]

I have a college sophomore so have already been through the process once.  She wasn’t shooting for H/Y/P, but her friends who did anpply SCEA and weren’t admitted all wound up at other T25 privates.[/quote]

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